Highs and Lows in Hartford

Great news, everybody! I'm staying in Hartford! Can you believe I've already been here 6 weeks? Me either! I'm really excited especially since we've got our new pad. It's been kind of stressful trying to get settled in the new place but we've pretty much been there for a week now and it's starting to feel like home. I'm glad I'm not moving even though we really don't have anything going on.
When we met with Malicia this week, she basically used the scripture that talks about lusting being adulterous to say that she is no more in the wrong than we are because it's impossible to not have those thoughts. She is just trying to justify her actions and doesn't understand what God wants and expects of her. We pretty much just bible-bashed for an hour and a half and afterward I just felt awful. Something that really helped me was this:
In Sacrament Meeting, someone shared the story of Alma. When he was rejected and depressed and ready to turn back (like I had felt) an angel came and comforted him. Alma 8:14-15 says, "And it came to pass that while he was journeying thither, being weighed down with sorrow, wading through much tribulation and anguish of soul, because of the wickedness of the people who were in the city of Ammonihah, it came to pass while Alma was thus weighed down with sorrow, behold an angel of the Lord appeared unto him, saying: Blessed art thou, Alma; therefore, lift up thy head and rejoice, for thou hast great cause to rejoice; for thou hast been faithful in keeping the commandments of God from the time which thou receivedst thy first message from him. Behold, I am he that delivered it unto you.”
This really helped me because even though Alma wasn’t being received, he was doing what he was supposed to and for that, the Lord said he had great cause to rejoice. Hopefully I, too, can find great cause to rejoice.
I know this one is short and I’m sorry but this is the extent of what has happened in my life. I love you all! Write me, please!